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Recently, I noticed that this very site, Labsrc.com, wouldn’t load in Microsoft Edge. On my Windows 10 PC, I was able to open the site in every other browser, Firefox, Chrome, IE, etc., except Microsoft’s successor to Internet Explorer. I initially started worrying that there was some change I made that was causing Edge to hang and that all my Microsoft readers were crashing their browsers bec ...

Security is often one of the last things IT professionals think about when starting a project. Most of the time tight deadlines and an overworked staff lead to a less than perfect implementation. Security, along with other important things…looking at you Documentation…get pushed to the back burner and sometimes forgotten about altogether. One safeguard that is seldom implemented is database ...

If you read my last post, you’ll know that the latest release of Windows 10 introduced an issue when connecting to public Samba shares. I showed you how this problem can be solved through the use of a local GPO. I thought that would be the last of my file sharing problems, but as usual I was sorely mistaken.

Recently, I had trouble connecting to a password protected Windows share from a Linu ...

Most users have already upgraded their Windows 10 PCs to Windows 10 1709 a.k.a. Fall Creators Update…who names these things?Hopefully everyone came out of the update unscathed and still have a working PC. Now that you’ve got the minor issue of booting out of the way, some of you may have noticed that you are having problems connecting to Windows File Shares or as us Linux guys call it, Samba ...

I use webmail for all of my email accounts as I find it much more convenient than setting up a local mail client like Thunderbird. For what seems like forever, I had been using a Firefox Add-On called X-notifierto alert me when I receive new mail. It was a cool little utility that allowed Firefox to regularly notify me of new mail from my various email accounts. User submitted scripts provide ...